Part I. Catholic and Protestant Intolerance in the Later Seventeenth
Century: 1. Catholic intolerance, its representations in England c.1678-86,
and Locke's Second Treatise; 2. Catholic intolerance and the significance
of its representations in England, Ireland, and the Netherlands c.1687-92;
3. Protestant religious intolerance in England c.1660-c.1700; 4. Religious
toleration and intolerance in the Netherlands and in the Huguenot community
in exile; Part II. Justifications of Intolerance and the Emergence of
Arguments for Toleration: Section 1: Justifications of Intolerance to
c.1660: 5. Patristic and medieval sources of early modern intolerance:
anathematising heretics and schismatics as seditious, pestilential
poisoners, 'libertines' and 'sodomites'; 6. Heresy and schism, sedition and
treason, and 'contrarities' and 'inversions' in the 'Last Days'; 7.
Catholic and 'Magisterial Reformation' attacks on Anabaptism,
Anti-Trinitarianism, and Atheism; 8. Anathematising heretics in sixteenth
and early seventeenth century French religious polemic; 9. Antiheretical
and antischismatic literature in England from the late sixteenth to the
mid-seventeenth century; Section 2: The Emergence of Tolerationist
Arguments and their Condemnation: 10. Early tolerationist arguments and
their condemnation; 11. Arguments for and against religious toleration in
the Netherlands c.1579-c.1680; 12. Toleration and intolerance, Jews and
Muslims; Section 3: Catholic and Protestant Defences of Intolerance in the
Later Seventeenth Century: 13. Catholic justifications of intolerance in
the 1680s and 1690s; 14. Huguenot justifications of intolerance and debates
over resistance in the 1680s and 1690s; 15. Justifying intolerance in
England c.1660-c.1700; Part III. The 'Early Enlightenment' Defence of
Toleration and the 'Republic of Letters' in the 1680s and 1690s: 16.
Tolerationist associations in the 1680s and 1690s and virtuous service in
the cause of toleration in the 'early enlightenment republic of letters';
17. Political and economic arguments for religious toleration in the 1680s
and 1690s; 18. Toleration, 'heretics' and 'schismatics'; 19. Toleration and
Jews, Muslims, and 'Pagans'; 20. The historical argument for toleration and
'early Enlightenment' advocacy of 'humanity' and 'civility'; 21.
Epistemological, philological, theological, and ethical arguments for
religious toleration; 22. Toleration and the intolerant, Catholics,
'Atheists', 'Libertines' and 'sodomites'.
